Very slow and jumpy CW for 56800/E, please help

[Vilbcam]

Hello

Im getting around the 56f800Demo board for the last 3 weeks, I have the latest version of  CW, I downloaded the latest update as well in a hope of getting a more predictable run of CW. It always worked but in trends, the pc works ok but the CW keep freezing for up to 4 seconds  at least 7 times per minute. It become annoying to debug  even on a simulator mode. I close all the others applications on pc, even anti-virus, it does not get better. When I try to disconnect from internet closing the firewall it stops comunicating to the target too!!!

Using XP with service pack 2

ANYBODY CAN HELP?

THANKS!!!!

[CrasyCat]

Hello

Can you check something please?

Can you open a DOS command window and enter command "set LM_LICENSE_FILE" there?

What is the value returned by the DOS OS?

CrasyCat

[Vilbcam]

Hello, Thanks for replying

The command bring this line:

C:\>set LM_LICENCE_FILE

LM_LICENSE_FILE=C:\Program Files\Freescale\CodeWarrior\licence.dat

[BlackNight]

Hello,
does it read 'licence.dat' or 'license.dat'? I'm wondering as typically the name is 'license.dat'.

And I assume in your license file there is no 'USE_SERVER' in it?

Erich

[BlackNight]

In addition to what CracyCat suggested:
It could be that another thing is slowing down the performance (e.g. if non-existing license files are referenced).
Check in your registry following key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\FLEXlm License Manager\\METROWKS_LICENSE_FILE

Maybe this variable points to non-existing files? You should clean it up or you can delete the variable completely.

Erich

[Vilbcam]

Hello

I searched the registry and I found no FLEXlm License Manager or METROWKS_LICENSE_FILE.

Maybe It does not have any license installed?

Thanks you all for the effort in helping me. I can live with that. Maybe it is just a sign that the  time to get a newer computer is up, thats it.  ( currently Celeron 2.45 Ghz, 345 Mb Ram )

[J2MEJediMaster]

Just buy yourself a fist full of RAM, and install that. According to the CodeWarrior Development Studio for FreescaleTM56800/E Digital Signal Controllers, v8.0, the system requirement for the host development system is 512 MB of RAM.

---Tom

[CrasyCat]

Hello

This seems OK. So the IDE is not going on the web to retrieve license information.

I am not an expert in 56800 so I am afraid I cannot help much more here.

I would suspect an access to a slow LAN though.

Is your project directory located on your local host? On a network drive?

Is your profile saved on your local host or on the network?

CrasyCat

[Vilbcam]

Can you give some directions on how to look for that informations (

Is your project directory located on your local host? On a network drive?

Is your profile saved on your local host or on the network?  )  ?

Thanks

[CrasyCat]

Hello

The project directory is the location of your .mcp file.

To retrieve the location of your profile directory:

  - Open a DOS command window

  - enter SET USERPROFILE

  - What is returned by the DOS OS?

CrasyCat

[Vilbcam]

it shows:

Documents and Settings\Poo Ping

[CrasyCat]

Hello

Sorry I am still missing the full path to your user profile directory. I just have a partial path here.

CrasyCat

[Vilbcam]

Hello

It is   C:\Documents and Settings\User

Thanks

[CrasyCat]

Hello

Then I have no clue what is going on on your system.

I would suggest you to submit a service request for that.

Click here to submit a service request.

CrasyCat

[v_dave]

Hello,

I have a newer laptop (about 6 months old) and I had similar performance issues.  It was very frustrating.  One of the Freescale FAE's explained to me that Codewarrior is Java based so it needs plenty of resources to run smoothly.  My laptop came with Win XP SP2 & 512MB RAM.  I upgraded my RAM to 2 Gigs and all the performance issues are gone.  In fact I run two instances of Codewarrior (one for the DSC and one for 8-bit dev work) at the same time without any performance hits. 

I hope this helps.